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Drips on a med surg floor.
I worked a med surg unit where we had insulin drips.
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I would like to.
We do insulin heparin argatroban bivilarudin diltiazem amiodarone lasix bumex lidocaine for pain mgmt epidurals for pain mgmt morphine dilaudid primarily for comfort measures patients.
There is a cardiac step down that would amount to the tele floor i d assume.
As the largest branch of nursing care med surg nursing has the widest variety of potential patients and diagnoses.
We also monitor 20 telemetry units the patients are on a med surg floor that also has peds.
Hospitalists at emory aren t the only ones who endorse the protocol.
This means knowing how to titrate a cardizem drip.
These nurses already have 6 7 patients each.
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It s also often the first nursing job and nurse has out of school.
Management s logic was that a pt.
Cardiac drips on a med surg floor.
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Med surg nursing requires attention to detail excellent multi tasking skills and a level head under pressure.
We transfer patients there if they need any iv cardiac meds have an elevated troponin for a true cardiac reason afib with rvr drips other than heparin etc.
I work in a 7 bed icu in a small rual hospital.
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They could be challenging particularly if the pt required stat labs in addition to the frequent fingersticks.
I work on a med surg tele floor ratios 5 1 days 6 1 nights with 3 cna s if we.
Whether you work in the er or icu ccu med surg or a long term care facility you have the ability to make a difference and save a life by paying attention to their needs and delivering the best nursing care possible.
My personal opinion is titrated drips or narcotic drips don t belong on medsurg unless it s a morphine drip on a dnr.
Administration wants to place the patients on cardizem drips on the med surg floor with tele.
If you hang dobutamine dopamine nitro and cardizem on your floor what is your nurse to patient ratio.
Patients on the med surg floor.
Didn t need to occupy a monitored bed simply for insulin drips.
I m on a med surg transplant floor there are multiple drips that we initiate or titrate.
Specialties med surg posted aug 27 2016.
